Antoine Chessex

Antoine Chessex (1980 in Vevey) is a Swiss artist and researcher who works with sound.

Selected instrumental works as a composer include Les Abîmes Hallucinés (for Ensemble Proton in Bern), La Résonance des Ruines (for ICTUS Ensemble in Brussels), Plastic Concrete (For Apartment House in London), The Experience of Limit, and Echo/cide.

Chessex is also a founding member of the noise-rock band Monno with whom he toured extensively.

Collaborations with musicians Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jérôme Noetinger, John Duncan, Maja Ratkje, Chris Corsano, Pat Thomas, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, architect Christian Waldvogel and media artist Ulrike Gabriel (Flow, 2002).

Antoine Chessex is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Zurich University of the Arts where he works on the transdisciplinary exploration of artistic research, sound studies and cultural studies.